/***********************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004 Actuate Corporation.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 * Actuate Corporation - initial API and implementation
 ***********************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc --> A representation of the model object '<em><b>Set</b></em>'. <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * 
 * 			This type holds the data associated with a series.
 * 			
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.DataSet#getValues <em>Values</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.DataPackage#getDataSet()
 * @model extendedMetaData="name='DataSet' kind='elementOnly'"
 * @generated
 */
public interface DataSet extends EObject
{

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Values</b></em>' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc --> <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * 
	 * 					Holds data values for the series.
	 * 					
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Values</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #setValues(Object)
	 * @see org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.DataPackage#getDataSet_Values()
	 * @model dataType="org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.Data" required="true"
	 *        extendedMetaData="kind='element' name='Values'"
	 * @generated
	 */
	Object getValues( );

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.birt.chart.model.data.DataSet#getValues <em>Values</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc --> <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Values</em>' attribute.
	 * @see #getValues()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setValues( Object value );

	/**
	 * A convenient method to get an instance copy. This is much faster than the
	 * ECoreUtil.copy().
	 */
	DataSet copyInstance( );

} // DataSet
